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CUTEK® powerfully protects the timber at Elemental House, enhancing its natural beauty with CUTEK® Extreme CD50 on Spotted Gum, ensuring durability against the harsh elements in rugged High Camp, Victoria

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CUTEK® powerfully protects the timber at Elemental House, enhancing its natural beauty with CUTEK® Extreme CD50 on Spotted Gum, ensuring durability against the harsh elements in rugged High Camp, Victoria banner
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CUTEK® – powerfully protecting the interior and exterior timber in your home. A modest weekend retreat, this geometric home is comfortably planted on an exposed ridge line in High Camp, Victoria. Surrounded by unending sky and land, Elemental House is completely off-grid and self-sustaining.

After many years of living in the city, these homeowners were seeking a retreat which would provide them with a relaxing escape away from city living. The house was then designed to function self-sufficiently, boasting its own power, water, and waste treatment onsite. To complement its self-sufficiency, a sustainable design became inherent; the home uses passive solar techniques to minimise the need for heating and cooling.

Considering the local environment, Spotted Gum coated in CUTEK® Extreme CD50 was chosen to clad the exterior of the home and was also utilised internally, coated in CUTEK® Interior, as a design feature for the ceiling. CUTEK® Interior’s ultra-matt finish will give the illusion of raw, uncoated timber while protecting it from moisture, dust and other elements which are prevalent in a home environment.

The design of Elemental House is intentionally raw, emphasising the connection between the house and its surrounding environment. As High Camp is exposed to the elements – harsh sun, strong winds, storms, and bushfire – CUTEK® Extreme CD50 was recommended to protect the timber and allow it to gracefully silver over time. Silvering over time was a key consideration to the homeowners as it further expressed the elemental aging process of timber in the harsh Australian environment; it also allowed the home, which is situation high on a hill, to settle and disappear into the surrounding landscape.

CUTEK® products are designed to highlight the beauty of timber while powerfully protecting it; by using CUTEK® Extreme CD50 on the Spotted Gum, this timber home will be protected from the harsh elements of the Australian landscape.

  • Photos courtesy of Marnie Hawson
  • Architect: Ben Callery Architects
  • Builder: Keenan Built
  • Landscape Architect: Kathleen Murphy Landscape Design
  • Stylist: Belle Hemming
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Professionals used in CUTEK® powerfully protects the timber at Elemental House, enhancing its natural beauty with CUTEK® Extreme CD50 on Spotted Gum, ensuring durability against the harsh elements in rugged High Camp, Victoria

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CUTEK® is a powerful wood protection system… but is also so much more than that. CUTEK® timber oils offer powerful protection while enhancing the natural beauty of timber. CUTEK® timber oils diffuse deeply into timber to repel moisture, maintain structural integrity and ensure the longest possible service life.

What sets CUTEK® oils apart is their ‘self-healing’ action. Once diffused, CUTEK® oils remain permanently mobile in the timber actively driving out moisture to minimise cupping, warping and splitting, even after being cut or perforated with fasteners. CUTEK® penetrating oils have a 30-year proven track record of standing up to our New Zealand climate and other harsh environments around the world.